Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...

At the Easter Island site, the NOVA team drags the concrete ... of this added up to a whole new way of looking at moving big rocks. Like many others, I had been distracted by scenes from antiquity ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world.

An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile's Easter Islands in the South ... among the almost 6,000 inhabitants of the island, which belongs to Chile despite being ...

The famous statues of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, are best known for their deep-set eyes and long ears. They also sport impressive multi-tonne hats made from a different rock type. Quite how these ...

Binghamton University archaeologist Carl Lipo has shed light on some of the ancient mysteries of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) through his ongoing research.

ROCK IT, standing up, side-to-side. Or, maybe try to ROLL IT, lying down, on round palm poles, or perhaps DRAG IT on its back. Among the many secrets buried in Easter Island prehistory is the ...

Easter Island was a tough place to make a living. It required heroic efforts. In farming, as in moai moving, the islanders shifted monumental amounts of rock—but into their fields, not out.